What would happen if it was announced Aliens had landed?

Idle Monday morning musings, If the news announced that aliens from another world had made contact what do you think would happen? I suppose it would matter where in the world they made contact. We’d all hope it wouldn’t be the states otherwise the chances of ET getting shot by a redneck with AR14 would be higher if not?

What if they landed in Italy or India, Austrailia? But what if they landed in blighty, what would happen and what might they do?

Would they fix the roads? Or the dreadful state of NHS dentistry?

Would everyone panic or shrug and go back to work.

Serious and not so serious responses welcomed.

Where is the announcement made? Good chance lots of people wouldn’t believe it. What are the trusted news sources these days?

Tin foil hat wearing loons would become *utterly* unbearable. “See, told you so!!!1!!111”

Conspiracy theorists would become mainstream. “See, they lied about the aliens, what else did they lie about, huh, huh, HUH!!!” BBC Question time would get even worse in the name of “balance”.

Did someone not do a FOI request to the government a few years back to find out what preparations had been made for an alien landing and it turned out that some thought had been given but it didn’t really amount to much?

At a guess, there would be a massive military and police operation to corden off the whole area, attempts at tests would be done and we’d ether annoy them enough to get them to destroy us all or they’d be destroyed and we’d then assume we were the Alphas of the entire universe – and then carry on burning the only planet that we live on!

Benign aliens probably wouldn’t land initially, they’d communicate (somehow) with various governments or the UN – cue various governments then pursuing their own agendas and trying to influence continued interactions, at which point the aliens would probably realise the Earth is beyond saving and carry on looking for somewhere better.

Non-benign aliens would probably just start blasting (or more like dumping bio weapons on us targeted at the human species)

They’ve already made contact and it hasn’t been announced, so there’s your answer.

If they landed in blighty I imagine we’d probably deport them to Rwanda before they stole our jobs and started claiming benefits..

People would generally just tutt, huff and roll their eyes as the alien walked past them in the queue. Someone might mutter something under their breath…

FaceBook and Twitter would implode due to the amount of fuckwittery that would be posted and the aliens would have a little look around before declaring the planet a lost cause and flying off again.

I suspect that the government would use the time to do all sorts of unpleasant shit whilst the media were looking the other way.

They would land in New York or Los Angeles BTW. They always do.

Did someone not do a FOI request to the government a few years back to find out what preparations had been made for an alien landing and it turned out that some thought had been given but it didn’t really amount to much?

There’s a discussion in The Big Bang Theory about that sort of thing:

Raj: Did you know, at the United Nations, there’s a Department for Outer Space Affairs?
Howard: Really? Why?
Raj: They exist in case we ever make contact with an alien civilization.
Howard: Mmm, boy, that’s one of those jobs that’s boring, boring, boring. Then, “Oh, God! Where’s the memo with what we do now?!”

Personally I don’t think anyone would believe it. It’d be put down to some sort of massive viral joke on social media, any images would be dismissed as being AI/photoshop but there’d also be a massive spike in conspiracy theory nonsense.

If it appeared genuine and not immediately hostile the very first thing that would happen would be traffic chaos as people went to go and have a look.

If they were clearly just here to grandstand and introduce Earth to the galaxy I suspect the authorities would try and organise some kind of tour so that everyone could say hi.

They are already here, but are too small for us to see. That’s a fact, I read it on a poster in the London Science Museum

They would land in New York or Los Angeles BTW. They always do.

Superman didn’t. Although it was still the US.

They still wouldn’t be able to afford a house.

Not long ago I watched a documentary called “Asteroid City”. What we would actually do is sit and stare at them. 😀

Any aliens with the technology to reach Earth will already be well aware that there’s no intelligent life here.

I for one welcome our new insect overlords!

Brexiteers and anti-vax nutters and climate change deniers wouid probably leap into Twitter to claim it didn’t happen. Tories would try to sell slaves to aliens.

I’d thank the maker that it wasn’t a couple of years ago; imagine the “take me to your leader” moment and Trump being that person.
They’d warp out pretty sharpish, hopefully before he groped.

They would not be able to find a parking space, so landing is out of the question. They will orbit couple of times cursing then go somewhere else.

Considering when humans encounter technologically inferior societies we tend to exploit the crap out of them, our chances are not good- think conquistadors vs aztecs, native americans, australian aborigines…….. genocide, asset stripping, subjugation, re-education camps, slavery

Hopefully our visitors will be a bit more enlightened

Be interesting to see what the worlds various religions do, kind of blows a hole in their arguments- Apart from scientologists- theyll suddenly get a big surge in numbers, – Tom Cruise as Earth’s ambassador!

There would be furious jockeying amongst the world powers to deal with the aliens, all of the crappiest people on the planet would be dying to get an in with them; Trump, Musk, Murdoch… at which point the aliens would realise we are completely beyond saving and decide to wipe us out&  re-engineer the whole planet as a holiday destination

Would they introduce a universal basic income so I can quit this shit? If not it wouldn’t make much difference to my routine.

I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t spend much time talking to humans. They’d get far more sense out of dolphins, monkeys or amoeba.

I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t spend much time talking to humans.

What makes you think they’d be able to talk to us (or vice versa)? Bridging the cross-species communication barrier is extremely difficult. If they’ve figured out how to travel interstellar distances then their communication will almost certainly be on another level to ours and there’s no way they could make us understand them. It’d be like us trying to have an intelligent conversation with a dog.

I think the question wouldn’t really be what would we do, (because I think most of us would be running around with our metaphorical hair on fire) rather what would the aliens do

If they have the tech to just suddenly appear in the skies above us, then I’d imagine we’re probs ****. Isn’t this one of the reasons behind the speculation “why isn’t there any transmission of any kind detectable in the galaxy?” – It could be that everyone else knows to keep their big mouths shut. Plus there’s always the question of whether they would regard us as in any way a civilisation, rather like; why didn’t the conquistadors stop to try to have a conversation with the first termite colony they encountered.

I’d go to the pub

hope that helps

They’re already here and running the country – into the ground; it’s preparation for bringing their entire species here.

My thoughts are that any species capable of interstellar travel is probably not in need of the resources of our planet. Unless there is something particularly rare thats useful for their warp cores/eternal life which will probably be a very small amount of something.

Traversing the galaxy in desparate need of stealing a planet’s worth of water seems improbable.

If they do exist they probably are already here. Regarding us with the sort of amused curousity that we get when we see a chimpanzee save their favourite most useful rock for later.

If they’ve figured out how to travel interstellar distances then their communication will almost certainly be on another level to ours and there’s no way they could make us understand them.

If they have figured out how to travel interstellar distances, they could equally have mastered how to communicate with any species they encounter.

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Panic. It wouldn’t take long before people realised that we’d be enslaved and eaten.

“It’d be like us trying to have an intelligent conversation with a dog.”

I find I often get more intelligent dialogue with my Labrador than the majority of the inhabitants of Britain can offer (just look at what the majority watch on TV for proof).

I think we’d probably end up being wiped out or at least have the population severely decimated.

You’ve got to think about how they’d perceive us as the “dominant species” on the planet, and given the fact that they would be a long way ahead technologically would they see us more like barely evolved chimps than intelligent life forms?

would they be “explorers” as we would probably like to see ourselves finding new and unfamiliar places out of pure scientific curiosity or “Surveyors” looking for places and resources that could be exploited.

Would they even have similar moral concepts to us?
Would there be any Qualms for them in squashing an indigenous population or “contaminating” a younger culture with knowledge/technology they’re possibly not ready for?

Look at how European “explorers” treated the indigenous populations they encountered when sailing further afield. Lovely islands with resources and wildlife and a few pre-existing tribes that look a bit different and speak an unfamiliar language, at the time nobody really knew/cared if they wiped them out did they.

“Benevolence” is often a matter of perspective, and is quite a Human concept.

If they have figured out how to travel interstellar distances, they could equally have mastered how to communicate with any species they encounter.

Maybe, but not necessarily. Ants communicate after all. I doubt discovery of FTL travel would make us understand them more beyond the knowledge that they use chemicals. Beyond a certain distance our radio signals turn into background mush, to aliens so far advanced as to be able to travel across the galaxy we may not even appear to be sufficiently advanced for them to be able to recognise that they should even try to communicate with us.

Plus if I was an alien, and according to all the literature, I’d only come to this planet for water because I’d have ruined my own planet, I would totally pretend that I couldn’t understand what people were saying to me…

I’d take them to the Lego shop.

I’d have my Slim Whitman song handy on my stereo

“ I’d go to the pub”
don’t forget your towel

They are already here, but are too small for us to see. That’s a fact, I read it on a poster in the London Science Museum

Were they not eaten by a small dog?

I’d have my Slim Whitman song handy on my stereo

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